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hand, he shall become educated, enjoy the good things of this world 

 and his work is not under a taskmaster, but he shall be free to do 

 as he pleases. His work is, as Washington has fitly said, "The 

 niosl noble, the most beautiful and the most useful employment of 

 man." 



So let us reach up a little further, search a little deeper, broaden 

 a little here and a lit lie there, and seek to be leaders in our day 

 and age, and if you do your work nobly, your work shall be like that 

 Spanish author has described, "Oyer which man shall shed his tears 

 eternally and God his benediction." Think more of yourselves than 

 you have before. Realize your responsibility and rise to meet it, 

 with renewed strength, obtained by patient study. Remember that 

 it is not a "theory but a fact that confronts us." Strive to accom- 

 plish more, to live better, to know more, to enjoy more, never for- 

 getful that the proudest Avords that can be spoken of man is, "He 

 has served his age and generation well," and when your work is 

 done that you shall "Only be remembered by what you have done." 

 You have promised to pay for value received and the world is ex- 

 pecting this of you. And may I say, lastly, but not leastly, that 

 "Forty centuries are looking down upon you." 



OUR OPPORTUNITIES. 



By MISS ELLEN S. DAVIS, Port Kennedy, Pa. 



"There is a tide in the affairs of men 

 Which, taken at the flood, leads onto fortune; 

 Omitted, all the voyage of their life 

 Is bound in shallows and in miseries." 



Our opportunities are God's call to duty and action. If we ask 

 the successful man or woman whence came their success, they will 

 invariably answer, "By making good use of my opportunities," while 

 the unsuccessful will say, "I was timid and hesitating, and while 

 waiting to acquire more courage my opportunities passed by me 

 never to return." How often we heard it said that had I known 

 sooner such an opportunity I would have grasped it. Even in our 

 everyday work we often see where a chance has been lost to do some 

 kindness or say some encouraging word to our fellow-travellers. 

 We know not how often we have helped some one by merely a kind 

 word or bright look, helped them over some stony place in life's 

 pathway : 



"When over the fair fame of friend or foe 

 The shadow of disgrace shall fall; instead 



Of words of blame, or proof of thus and so, 

 Let something good be said. 



"Forget not that no fellow-being yet 

 May fall so low but love may lift his head; 



Even the cheek of shame with tears is wet 

 If something good be said. 



"No generous heart may vainly turn aside 

 In ways of sympathy; no soul so dead 

 But may awaken, strong and glorified, 

 If something good is said." 



